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BattleLore is excellent. I got an early, complete copy for review, and have enjoyed playing it immensely (the review will be in Scrye #105). It could readily be used as a D&D mass-combat emulator, with the proviso that at this time, there are only three races: humans, dwarves, and goblins, plus...

For gritty old-style sword & sorcery, Wilderlands of High Fantasy from Necromancer Games, along with the City State of the Invincible Overlord. Then again, I'm biased. For something that will remind you of Forgotten Realms before it became all too well un-forgotten, with a strong dash of...

In addition to Shanower and Moore's comics, there's a cool webcomic that touches on this... http://www.cheshirecrossing.net/

A ten-foot pole is always one foot short.

Grand Califa Part II: Very Basic Gazetteer Lands of Grand Califa Long centuries ago, Califa was the centerpiece of the Empire of the Ancients, when mankind ruled the world through his powerful magics. Then the Change struck, and magic changed. Old gods died, and new ones arose. Demons walked...

Grand Califa Part I: Map Takasi, I finally got around to throwing together a map and some notes for you on the California section of the campaign I was doodling on... I hope you find this helpful.

To give Barovia that mixed Transylvanian feel, Ket is your best bet. Barovia fits in two general areas, both far out from the more heavily populated areas. Note this is all based just on the clasic boxed set; I'm not sure about the current status of things with the new editions. First, and I...

Here's a quick and dirty map of the region I described above...

I've played around with this a couple of times, in a couple of different ways. Currently, my "doodle work" (i.e., the writing I do to get away from doing my work-a-day writing) is exactly such a campaign. I use the basic premise that it the setting takes place after the Change, where magic...

The room has a sweet little girl, with big soulful eyes. She's just a normal girl, dressed in Greek-style clothing. Her room is decorated like a noble girl's room would be. She's very smart, and curious about the adventurers. If they cause trouble, she calls out for mom. Mom is a fiendish...

www.acaeum.com Unfortunately, some of the prices are out of date, but I'm sure you can scare up more recent values in the Acaeum forums.

When listed with a race, this indicates that a character who gets "Common" as a language will speak the "most common tongue" of the region he or she is from. On the Bonus Languages by Region chart (page 45) you will see that there are several listed bonus languages per region. The first...

Hmmm... how to phrase this? Let's just say that with the Mayfair edition, the writer somehow managed to rip out all the "Cool" from the City State, and replace it with "Suck," and then cranked the overall "Suck" factor all the way to 11... Yeah, that about does it. More specifically, the...

Aaaaugh! Hiss! The Mayfair "Edition." We hates it! It took the City State of the Invincible Overlord, the "New York" of fantasy cities, and turned it into "Mayberry." Hiss!

The Wilderlands of High Adventure will be my own version of the Wilderlands -- as Bob said, every Judge's Wilderlands is different from others, as campaigns develop and styles differ. The WoHA will be larger, with the Swords & Sorcery style influenced by modern High Fantasy and Epic Fantasy --...

Hi everyone! James Mishler here, President and Main Man of Adventure Games Publishing... I thought I'd make a few points vis a vis concerns... 1) I chose C&C as the platform for the Wilderlands of High Adventure because it has an expanding fan base, whereas d20 has a shrinking fanbase. The...

My own theory... Hey all, Here's the post Gary mentioned earlier... sorry for how late it is, been quite busy in the pre-Gen Con rush. Note that I have *no* inside information on anything haveing to do with 4E D&D... this is all speculation, based on my knowledge of the market. I could be way...

Is the "verbal culture" of StormWorld essentially English, like in Forgotten Realms and Eberron? Or are there different cultures with different languages, like in Greyhawk or more especially, Mystara. The name of the race should be closely tied to whatever culture they originally derived from...

My near-complete Judges Guild collection. I quit gaming back in my first semester of sophmore year at high school (1984) and sold all my Judges Guild stuff (nearly a complete collection then, too). Fortunately nobody wanted my D&D and AD&D books, so I was not totally screwed when I got back...

That's a big sword, definitely, but it still seems small compared to some zweihander swords I saw in Germany. True greatswords are 6 feet long or more, the blade portion alone nearly as long as a claymore entirely, while what Wallace wielded was closer to the classic claymore. When walking into...